Bush Rearranges Deck Chairs on Titanic -- errr, Bush Builds New Iraq Team

[DeepModem Mom]

CNN: Bush builds new Iraq team
January 5, 2007


Bush announces Friday his spy chief is moving to the State Department where he'll handle Iraq diplomacy.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush is reshuffling his Iraq war commanders as well as intelligence and diplomatic officials in advance of announcing a new U.S. strategy for the nearly four-year-old conflict.

His top generals for the Mideast region and Iraq will be replaced by a Navy admiral currently overseeing U.S. Pacific forces and an Army general, senior U.S. military officials said Friday.

Bush also announced Friday that John Negroponte, currently director of national intelligence, will become the new deputy secretary of state, where he's expected to handle Iraq affairs.

Under pressure from the new Democratic-led Congress whose leaders have strongly criticized the war, the president said he will announce his new blueprint for the conflict "sometime next week."

U.S. Navy Adm. William Fallon, who currently oversees U.S. forces in the Pacific, has been tapped by Bush to replace Gen. John Abizaid, the head of U.S. Central Command who is retiring this year, two senior U.S. military officials told CNN Friday.

Also, Lt. Gen. David Petraeus is Bush's choice to replace Gen. George Casey as the commander of troops in Iraq, another senior military official said....

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/05/us.iraq/index.html

[meegbear]

1. As Stephen Colbert said ...

"This administration is soaring, not sinking. They are re-arranging the deck chairs--on the Hindenburg."

[DeepModem Mom]

3. I'd forgotten that remark -- good one, Colbert! nt

[Virginia Dare]

2. Negroponte will "handle Iraq affairs"...

what does this mean, a surge in death squads? And is this a blantant admission that Condi was not up to the job?

What a sack of stinking shit this administration is.